News Archive - 2011

The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The new release candidate fixed several bugs, including:

Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is
solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the
QA mailing list and/or the
PHP bug tracker.

Ibuildings is proud to organise the sixth Dutch PHP Conference on June 8 and 9, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 7. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the third
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the third release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

Changes since the previous release candidate include:

The intl extension now supports UTS #46 mapping for IDNA

$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] are now available in the builtin CLI server implementation.

Several improvements and bug fixes in the Zend Engine, Core and other extensions.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is
solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the
QA mailing list and/or the
PHP bug tracker.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the second
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the second release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

Changes since the previous release candidate include:

Further bug fixes in the built-in web server.

PHP-FPM is no longer marked as EXPERIMENTAL.

Several improvements and bug fixes in the Zend Engine, Core and other extensions.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is
solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the
QA mailing list and/or the
PHP bug tracker.

The Italian PHP user group GrUSP is pleased to
announce the 9th edition of the Italian phpDay conference, taking place
on May 18th and 19th, 2012 in Verona. We will show new development
traits, best-practices and success cases related to quality, revision
control, test-driven development, continuous integration and so on.
There are also talks about design, project management, agile and various
php-related technologies.

phpDay is the first historic Italian conference dedicated solely to PHP
development, technologies and management. It is aimed to IT managers,
developers and innovators. Each year it renews the opportunity to link
to new business partners.

The call for papers is open and will run until Feb 28th 2012. For more
information, please visit our website: http://www.phpday.it

The PHP development team is proud to announce the first
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

This is the first release candidate. No new features will be included
before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The release candidate phase is
intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

Changes since the last beta version include:

Added class member access on instantiation (e.g. (new Foo)->bar()).

Changed silent conversion of array to string to produce a notice.

Numerous bug fixes and improvements in the Core and other extensions.

Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and
all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your
code base and report any problems that you encounter to the
QA mailing list and/or the
PHP bug tracker.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the second beta release of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours.
Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

Please help us to identify bugs by testing new features and looking for
unintended backward compatibility breaks, so we can fix the problems and
fully document intended changes before PHP 5.4.0 is released.
Report findings to the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

This release includes numerous bug fixes and improvements since the first beta release.

The PHP Rio User Group
is pleased to announce their third edition of
the PHP'n Rio conference. It will be held on November 05th,
2011, at the CEFET-RJ university,
Rio de Janeiro. It is a one day conference aimed on providing
experienced developers and beginners a chance to learn more about PHP
frameworks, web applications built in PHP, and the art of testing
code.

Whether you live here or are around just enjoying the marvelous city,
come and join us :) For more information, please visit
http://www.phprio.org/phpnrio11
(Portuguese only).

The Web DevCon 2011, the conference for web developers, will take place
from 17th – 18th of October 2011 in the InterContinental in Hamburg
(Germany). Web DevCon features trends, solutions and know-how for web
developers: From web technology and web architecture to programming
languages such as php, java and ruby as well as web frameworks and
development tools.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the first beta release of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviors.
Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

New features were added and bugs were fixed since alpha1.
Please help us to identify bugs by testing new features and looking for
unintended backward compatability breaks, so we can fix the problems and
fully document intended changes before PHP 5.4.0 is released.
Report findings to the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

Changes since the first alpha version include:

Added callable typehint.

Removed the timezone guessing algorithm. "UTC" is now used in case the timezone is not set.

The mysql, mysqli and pdo_mysql extensions now use mysqlnd by default.

There will be 30 one-hour talks and workshops in two days with three
parallel tracks, covering many PHP development subjects such as Application
Scalability, High Performance, Frameworks and IDEs, Continuous Integration,
Unit Testing, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, and many more topics and
surprises.

The conference will take place from the 28th to the 29th of October and will
bring together Rasmus Lerdorf, Derick
Rethans, Fabien Potencier, Marco
Tabini and many more of the shiniest names in the industry for two
fun-packed days of intensive PHP.

The PHPBenelux Conference is ready for its third edition and takes place
January 27th & 28th in Antwerp (Belgium). We're
calling for papers
until October 15th and we're very much looking forward to your submissions.

These are the topics we're aiming for:

Content Management Systems

Cloud

NoSQL

Analytics

Frameworks

Best practises

General and in depth programming skills

HTML5 & co (with a PHP twist)

All information about the conference and the CFP can be found on our
conference website.
Schedule and ticket information will be announced early November

The Zend PHP Conference (ZendCon) is the largest gathering of the PHP Community and brings together PHP developers and IT managers from around the world to discuss PHP best practices and explore new technologies.

This year’s conference will be held on October 17-20, 2011 at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The conference will include a variety of technical sessions and in-depth tutorials in the following areas:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.7. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which
are security related.

Fixed bug #54623 (Segfault when writing to a persistent socket after closing a copy of the socket)

Fixed bug #54681 (addGlob() crashes on invalid flags)

Over 80 other bug fixes.

Windows users: please mind that we do no longer provide builds created
with Visual Studio C++ 6. It is impossible to maintain a high quality
and safe build of PHP for Windows using this unmaintained compiler.

For Apache SAPIs (php5_apache2_2.dll), be sure that you use a Visual
Studio C++ 9 version of Apache. We recommend the Apache builds as provided
by ApacheLounge. For any other
SAPI (CLI, FastCGI via mod_fcgi, FastCGI with IIS or other FastCGI capable
server), everything works as before. Third party extension providers
must rebuild their extensions to make them compatible and loadable with
the Visual Studio C++9 builds that we now provide.

All PHP users should note that the PHP 5.2 series is NOT supported
anymore. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.7.

We just launched ConFoo 2012 edition and are presently calling for papers.
We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and
experience with developers and managers. ConFoo is a community driven
conference dedicated to Web technologies.

The conference will be held in Montreal from February 29th to March 2nd,
2012 at the prestigious Hotel Hilton Bonaventure. We will also have two days
of private training. The topics will be revealed later this year.

Talk proposals must be received by September 2nd and may be written in English
or French.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the first PHP 5.4 alpha release.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviors.
Read the NEWS
file for a complete list of changes.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

This alpha release exists to encourage users to identify bugs, and
to ensure that all new features and backward compatibility breaks are evaluated
and documented before PHP 5.4.0 is released. Please report findings to
the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker. Windows binaries
can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

Come and speak at PHP Days, co-organized with OSI Days which will be held in
Bangalore, India on 20-21 November 2011. This year will be the 8th edition of
OSI Days. This special conference is designed to bring focused attention to
PHP. The last day of submission is June 20, 2011. This edition of PHP Days
| OSI Days will have special focus on:

We're at Ramada Hotel on Picadilly Gardens right in the centre of
Manchester on October 8th and 9th (Saturday and Sunday) with some
excellent talks. For those looking for more in-depth technical
learning, we're adding a tutorial day this year; join us on Friday 7th
October for a full day of workshop format sessions with industry
leaders - and every ticket includes a pass to the main conference!

Our call for papers runs until June 12th 2011, and whether you join us
as a speaker, a sponsor, or an attendee, we know you'll have a great
time. PHPNW is a fun weekend of PHP and technology with an excellent
crowd to hang out with - hope to see you there :)

The Italian PHP user group GrUSP is pleased to
announce the 8th edition of the Italian phpDay
conference, taking place from May 12th to 14th, 2011 in Verona. We will
show new development traits, best-practices and success cases related to
quality, revision control, test-driven development, continuous
integration and so on. There are also talks about design, project
management, agile and various php-related technologies.

phpDay is the first historic Italian conference dedicated solely to PHP
development, technologies and management. It is aimed to IT managers,
developers and innovators. Each year it renews the opportunity to link
to new business partners.

phpDay introduces the most important
international PHP gurus to italian
and european developers. Tree tracks, three days of talks and workshops:
you can learn best-practices, good methodologies, case histories about
quality assurance, and have a broader view on development and innovation
with PHP.

The wiki.php.net box was compromised and the attackers were able to
collect wiki account credentials. No other machines in the php.net
infrastructure appear to have been affected. Our biggest concern is,
of course, the integrity of our source code. We did an extensive code
audit and looked at every commit since 5.3.5 to make sure that no stolen
accounts were used to inject anything malicious. Nothing was found.
The compromised machine has been wiped and we are forcing a password
change for all svn accounts.

We are still investigating the details of the attack which combined a
vulnerability in the Wiki software with a Linux root exploit.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.6. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which
are security related.

Windows users: please mind that we do no longer provide builds created
with Visual Studio C++ 6. It is impossible to maintain a high quality
and safe build of PHP for Windows using this unmaintained compiler.

For Apache SAPIs (php5_apache2_2.dll), be sure that you use a Visual
Studio C++ 9 version of Apache. We recommend the Apache builds as provided
by ApacheLounge. For any other SAPI (CLI,
FastCGI via mod_fcgi, FastCGI with IIS or other FastCGI capable
server), everything works as before. Third party extension providers
must rebuild their extensions to make them compatible and loadable with
the Visual Studio C++ 9 builds that we now provide.

All PHP users should note that the PHP 5.2 series is NOT supported anymore. All users
are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.6.

The PHP Community Conference is
a conference by and for the PHP community. It's for people who care
about PHP and what they make with it.

Inspired by conferences like Webstock
and Brooklyn Beta, we want
to make a friendly conference for us. Together with our friends and
peers, we (Ben,
Lisa, and
Nick) aim to inspire you
to make great things with PHP.

The PHP Community Conference is a two-day event, taking place April
21st and 22nd, 2011 in Nashville, TN. We have an
awesome line-up of speakers,
including a keynote address by Rasmus Lerdorf.

We'll kick things off with a tutorial day that will introduce you
to tools and ideas that you can use in your code right away. The
second day will consist of presentations that will inspire you to
create something new with PHP. With the help of our sponsors, we
are able to offer admission to the entire event for $350 USD. We'll
provide lunch and snacks on both days. On Friday night, we'll
finish off the conference with a party featuring
pecha kucha
talks by our awesome attendees.

For more information and to register, check out our website at
phpcon.org.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.5 and 5.2.17.

This release resolves a critical issue, reported as PHP bug #53632 and
CVE-2010-4645, where conversions from string to double might cause the PHP
interpreter to hang on systems using x87 FPU registers.

The problem is known to only affect x86 32-bit PHP processes, regardless
of whether the system hosting PHP is 32-bit or 64-bit. You can test
whether your system is affected by running this script
from the command line.

All users of PHP are strongly advised to update to these versions
immediately.